CURRENT EXHIBITION
Karolina Jabłońska
OLD WIVES’ SUMMER
Karolina Jabłońska’s latest exhibition reveals a reflective side of her artistic personality.
Karolina Jabłońska
ART FAIRS 2025
ART WARSAW MIODOWA
This coming weekend, 13–14 December, we invite you to a special event: ART WARSAW MIODOWA, at 18 Miodowa Street in Warsaw. Together with the Turnus gallery, we have prepared a sensational revival of our legendary project — the Budget Art Fair.
ART FAIRS 2025
Art Collaboration Kyoto
Janek Simon, Kazuhito Tanaka, Sławomir Elsner
Raster presents a meeting of three artists arranged especially for ACK: Kyoto-based Kazuhito Tanaka, Berlin-based Slawomir Elsner and Warsaw-based Janek Simon.
ART FAIRS 2025
Paris Photo 2025
Raster returns to Paris Photo with a curated presentation focused on photographic
representations of the intersecting fringes of the human environment and wildlife.
WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2025
Edward Dwurnik, Zofia Rydet, Paweł Althamer
PEOPLE
Chochołów, Sławoszyno, Chęciny, Celejów — the exhibition takes place far from art centres, and its protagonists are not artists but the titular People — residents of Polish villages and small towns. The narrative unfolds over three decades, from the 1960s to the early 1990s. During that time, independently of each other and outside the framework of official artistic policy, Edward Dwurnik and Zofia Rydet embarked on their own unique, personal journeys deep into the country.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Karolina Jarzębak, Iza Opiełka, Katarzyna Przezwańska, Janek Simon
CRAFTS FICTION
The Crafts Fiction exhibition offers a journey back in time – simultaneously into the distant past and the indefinite future. Opening: July 19, 2025, 5–8 PM.
ART FAIRS 2025
Hotel Warszawa Art Fair 2025
As part of the 4th edition of Hotel Warszawa Art Fair, we are pleased to present new works by two exceptional artists who have been closely connected with Raster for over 20 years.
EXHIBITIONS 2025
Monika Falkus
SIREN SLUT
Siren Slut is a painterly treatise on desire and the search for fulfilment. Each painting here is a form of rapprochement, a sexual relationship, but at the same time a figure of extreme emotional tension.
EXHIBITIONS 2025
CONSTELLATIONS
Reeha Lim, Zbigniew Rogalski and Jin Ruoxi
This weekend, April 12-13, we invite you to Raster for the opening of a new exhibition prepared in cooperation with Shanghai-based Vacancy gallery as part of the 2nd edition of the international project of Warsaw’s Constellations galleries.
We present the works of three artists, Reeh Lim (b. 1994), Zbigniew Rogalski (b. 1974) and Jin Ruoxi (b. 1997).
ART FAIRS 2025
NADA Villa Warsaw 2025
The second edition of NADA Villa Warsaw will take place at the historic Villa Gawrońskich in Warsaw, Poland, from May 22–25, 2025.
EXHIBITIONS 2025
Gvantsa Jishkariani
TRAUMA PORN
Jishkariani, who was born the same year that Georgia regained its independence, can indeed be brutally honest, and she does combine formalism with morality, but generational traumas are also reflected in her works. The starting material for these pieces is the decorative tapestries that were popular in the Soviet Union, which the artist deconstructs and processes by applying embroidered mottos.
EXHIBITION 2024/2025
Dominika Olszowy
GLOBUS HYSTERICUS
The exhibition is titled „Globus Hystericus”. This sumptuous Latin phrase refers to a common psychosomatic disorder—simply a lump in the throat. Whether a frog in the throat or a bent treetop, every crisis has a tangible shape, and every shape has its artist. A healer.
ART FAIRS 2024
NADA Miami 2024
Traditionally, in the first week of December we invite you to Miami, where Raster is taking part in the NADA contemporary art fair. This time we are presenting new paintings by Karolina Jabłońska and Emilia Kina, drawings by Sławomir Elsner, and photographs by Aneta Grzeszykowska. The fair will be held on 3–7 December 2024.
WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2024
Aneta Grzeszykowska
KARMA
Karma is a narrative of animalization, but also the personification of bodies reduced to the role of objects.
WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2024
Olaf Brzeski
SHIP
In the Raster garden, Olaf Brzeski presents a souvenir family photo. But it takes the original form of a spatial sculptural composition of ceramic and steel. The shape of the ship in the title is suggestive of the female body, and onboard are an astronaut, the astronaut’s mother, a teenage boy, and the head of a dog.
PARIS PHOTO 2024
Paris Photo
Aneta Grzeszykowska and Zofia Rydet
Raster presents a dialogue between two recognized female artists from two generations: Zofia Rydet (1911-1997) and Aneta Grzeszykowska (b.1974).
EXHIBITIONS 2024
Sławomir Elsner, Julian Stańczak
TWO LIGHTS
Two Lights is a journey into a world of visual sensations. Abstract works by Elsner and Stańczak, shown together for the first time, draw viewers in with their spectacular surfaces, resulting from a complex and time-consuming painting process.
EXHIBITIONS 2024
Slavs and Tatars
SIMURGH SELF-HELP
Slavs and Tatars’ new exhibition at Raster Gallery débuts work from Simurgh Self-Help, the collective’s first new cycle of work since Pickle Politics (2016-2023) which was originally launched on the occasion of the artists’ last exhibition at Raster in 2016.
ART FAIRS 2024
NADA Villa Warsaw
Brzeski Olaf, Jabłońska Karolina, Stasik Paulina
NADA Villa Warsaw is a collaborative exhibition featuring 44 international galleries, taking place May 16th to 19th, 2024, at the historic Willa Gawrońskich on Aleje Ujazdowskie.
EXHIBITIONS 2024
CONSTELLATIONS
Since the birth of photography, it has remained in a loving embrace with its older kissing cousin, painting. They serve each other, inspire each other, and swap roles. But this intimate relationship carries a whiff of shame, as the lovers don’t like to appear in public together. The exhibition Constellations tries to break this taboo.
ART FAIRS 2024
Hotel Warszawa Art Fair
The third edition of the Hotel Warszawa Art Fair will take place on September 7-8, 2024. During this edition, Raster will present works by Sławomir Elsner, Emilia Kina, Dominika Olszowy, and Janek Simon. The works will be displayed in room 104.
2022 art fairs
FELIX Art Fair
At this year’s FELIX art fair in Los Angeles Raster shows works of Aneta Grzeszykowska, Paulina Stasik, Karolina Jabłońska and Michelle Rawlings.
2021 art fairs
NADA Miami
At this year’s NADA fair in Miami, Raster shows works of Aneta Grzeszykowska, Karolina Jabłońska, Emilia Kina, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and Michelle Rawlings.
EXHIBITIONS 2021
FRIEND OF A FRIEND
In the third Warsaw edition of the Friend of a Friend project, Galeria Raster, along with The Breeder from Athens and Sophie Tappeiner from Vienna, is presenting an exhibition confronting the nature of pain and discomfort.
EXHIBITIONS 2020
Olaf Brzeski
ADVENTURE
Adventure is a story full of personal experiences, ruminations on love and death, joy and loss, as well as small but meaningful sensations, like the pleasure from a complement.
2020 art fairs
NADA Miami
Raster at NADA Miami: Przemysław Matecki and Paweł Althamer, Olaf Brzeski, Emilia Kina and Zbigniew Rogalski. This year’s edition of the art fair is taking place in a hybrid form – on the online platform and live at Raster.
exhibitions 2020
TR Warszawa
MARIA KLASSENBERG
“Maria Klassenberg” is a performance-installation-exhibition, built around the biography and work of Maria Klassenberg, a forgotten figure of contemporary art. The exhibition accompanying the performance presents the archives of Klassenberg prepared by Aneta Grzeszykowska in cooperation with Jan Smaga.
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art
Dominika Olszowy
YAWN OF A SLEEPY HEART
Dominika Olszowy takes part in the second edition of the biennial in Riga. Her project consists of two parts presented in the Latvian capital and an installation prepared at Raster.
2020 art fairs
COSMOSCOW
In Moscow we will present the latest works of Zina Isupova and Lev Povzner.
2020 ART FAIRS
Not Fair
Raster at Not Fair: Janek Simon, Zbigniew Rogalski
exhibitions 2020
Janek Simon
MACHINE LEARNING FOLKLORE
The latest exhibition by Janek Simon at Raster has an open structure. Instead of a traditional, arranged showing of completed artistic objects, we are given a process, a situation suggesting a visit to the studio, where we can observe “live” the changing progress of work on each project.
exhibitions 2020
Edward Dwurnik
MOJŻESZ AND OTHERS FROM RYPIN
The presentation of ten of Edward Dwurnik’s works on paper never shown before marks the beginning of the work on an intriguing archive of the artist, in which motifs and stories known from paintings are developed, or the reverse—drawings left by the artist include ideas and emotions later expanded on in his paintings.
2020 ART FAIRS
FAIR
Raster at FAIR: Slavs and Tatars, Zbigniew Rogalski, Janek Simon, Karolina Jabłońska.
EXHIBITIONS 2020
Emilia Kina
SCREEN
Emilia Kina focuses on the margins of depiction, of what is merely a frame for the proper view, what hides it or merely appears. Her relief compositions, painting/screens captivating in their material beauty, divert attention from the digital inflation of images and messages.
EXHIBITIONS 2020
Krzysztof Zieliński
HOMETOWN
Wąbrzeźno, an ordinary little town starting with W, down near the end of the alphabet, in a language where “w” could stand for wszędzie—anywhere, portrayed by the photographer after a decade of systemic changes up to the eve of Poland’s joining the European Union, became a visual synonym for the creeping transformation. Working on colour negatives and alluding to the minimalist poetics of topographic photography, Zieliński created an image of the post-socialist countryside that is the first of its kind, moving and empathetic, constructed from mist and a thousand and one shades of grey.
EXHIBITIONS 2020
Michał Budny, Kajetan Sosnowski
EQUIVALENT ARRANGEMENT
At the joint exhibition Equivalent Arrangement Michał Budny and Kajetan Sosnowski meet for the first time. The works of both artists, seemingly abstract, in various ways defy easy classifications of genre. They operate through images and masses but use little painting or sculpting. Their compositions generally finds its origins in an abstract drawing—noted on paper or only conceptualized—as a type of minimalist score, the simplest recording of an idea.
2020 art fairs
FELIX Art Fair
Raster at Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles: Aneta Grzeszykowska, Marcin Maciejowski, Przemek Matecki, Zbigniew Rogalski, Michelle Rawlings, Janek Simon
EXHIBITIONS 2019
Michał Budny
NEITHER
The show “Neither” is Budny’s latest radical statement, this time with a vector aiming upwards, “into space, far from earthly concerns and triviality, from the quotidian and everything that weighs us down and detracts us from what is important.”
2019 art fairs
NADA Miami
Raster at NADA Miami: Aneta Grzeszykowska, Przemek Matecki, Janek Simon, Slavs and Tatars.
Exhibitions 2019
Lev Povzner
FIELD OF MIRACLES
Joint exhibition of Galeria Dawid Radziszewski and Raster Gallery is the first-ever in Poland for Lev Povzner, a painter from the movement of Russian nonconformists. He works in his own flat and uses domestic materials. Povzner’s elaborate, individual brand of surrealism represents a return to the political potential of the genre. At this exhibition we present a selection of his newest works.
Marcin Maciejowski
Plakat “Rafael pędzla Maciejowskiego (Wrażenie Posiadania)”
W księgarni Rastra polecamy – plakat autorstwa Marcina Maciejowskiego na podstawie jego własnego obrazu “Rafael pędzla Maciejowskiego (Wrażenie Posiadania)”.
BOOK WITH ART
Oskar Dawicki
Desecrator’s Gymnastics
Now available – Oskar Dawicki’s album “I’m Sorry”, with a photograph signed by the artist from the “Gimnastyka profana (Desecrator’s Gymnastics)” series, priced at 800 PLN.
Nicolas Grospierre
Helioderm
Nicolas Grospierre is a renowned artist and photographer, an explorer of brutalist architecture, and a creator of illusionistic photographic objects. A few years ago, he discovered the charms of heliography—images created using sunlight. The abstract compositions he produces on fabrics have been exhibited, among other places, at the Palace on the Isle in Warsaw’s Łazienki Royal Park. Helioderm is an intriguing attempt to transfer this same method onto the surface of human skin.
BOOK WITH ART
Paulina Stasik
Tangle / Sling
On the occasion of Paulina Stasik’s recent exhibition at the BWA gallery in Tarnów, her authorial book Autoportret z językiem na wierzchu (Self-Portrait with Tongue Out) was released. As a special edition accompanying the publication, the artist created two works in a refined printmaking technique: Kłębowisko and Proca. Both are available in a limited edition […]
SELF-PORTRAIT WITH TONGUE STICKING OUT
The publication devoted to the work of Paulina Stasik, entitled Autoportret z językiem na wierzchu, presents an extensive selection of the artist’s works accompanied by her own commentary. The volume is further complemented by essays by Natalia Gierowska and Michalina Sablik.
Janek Simon
Dr Schnabel
Janek Simon is known for his unconventional journeys into the depths of the world and into distant moments of history, translating his experiences from these voyages into the language of contemporary, democratic technologies. This time, in a series of figures realized using his distinctive 3D printing technique, the artist evokes the figure of the plague doctor.
Dominika Olszowy
Broken Penny
Dominika Olszowy is an artist unafraid to stoop low—picking up tiny fragments of reality, a lump of last year’s snow, or a fresh tuft of dust swept from the floor. In her hands, the small and humble can shine, as with the “broken penny”—a signature pendant on a silver chain. A new standard in artistic […]
Aneta Grzeszykowska
Temporary Photo Tattoos
Do you also sometimes get goosebumps at the sight of Aneta Grzeszykowska’s photographs? This extraordinary artist treats the body as an illusionistic vessel for life. Now her art will touch you in the most literal way through the photo tattoos created by Grzeszykowska. A leather head in a mask is a camouflaged self-portrait of the […]
Aneta Grzeszykowska
Existence
Aneta Grzeszykowska, who underwent gymnastics training during her school years, also uses her own body as a tool, creating filmic choreographies and political posters with it. Istnienie emerged in the wake of the Women’s Strike protests, but it also functions as a form of existential training, prompting reflection on the inseparability of language, consciousness, and its bodily vessel.
Sławomir Elsner
La Dama con Ermellino after Leonardo da Vinci, 1488–1490, National Museum in Krakow
The puzzle, based on one of his drawings, offers an extreme journey into a tangle of thousands of coloured lines, from which the misty image of the most famous work of art in Polish museum collections gradually emerges.
WGW MEETINGS
WGW MEETING: HOW TO CARE FOR AN ARTIST’S LEGACY?
Who takes care of an artist’s work after their death, and how? How can one organize an archive and collection? How can an artist’s legacy be promoted after their passing? We invite you to a special meeting with representatives of the family foundations of Edward Dwurnik and Zofia Rydet.
Maciejowski’s Wawel
Art book “Wawel Drawings” by Marcin Maciejowski is now available at Raster’s bookstore.
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
Simon in Brussels
Works by Janek Simon can be seen at the “Familiar Strangers” exhibition at the BOZAR Art Centre in Brussels. Curated by Joanna Warsza, the exhibition explores diverse contemporary identities in Eastern Europe. On view until 29 June.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
Grzeszykowska and Kina at Ujazdowski Castle
The show includes works from Aneta Grzeszykowska’s “Franciszka” series, as well as the debut presentation of her new series, “Negative Blood.” Emilia Kina also takes part in the exhibition, engaging in photography alongside her painting practice.
Maciejowski in Vienna
The façade of the Ringturm skyscraper — the headquarters of Austria’s largest insurance group — has been “dressed” in a monumental image by the artist: a portrait of poet Marcin Świetlicki standing by a bookshelf.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
Edward Dwurnik: Portrait from Life
Latest exhibition, Edward Dwurnik: Portrait from Life, brings back the memory of the artist’s collaboration with Andrzej Szczygł—screenwriter and director of documentary films, who passed away in 2024. The opening will take place on Saturday, April 12, from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
All of Poland in Toruń
Another exhibition of works from a large private collection is underway at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń.It includes numerous works by artists affiliated with Raster, such as Aneta Grzeszykowska, Karolina Jabłońska, Zbigniew Libera, Marcin Maciejowski, Przemysław Matecki, Wilhelm Sasnal, Janek Simon, and Slavs and Tatars.
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
Slavs and Tatars in Baden-Baden
An expansive exhibition by the collective Slavs and Tatars is now on view at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Some of the works in the show, titled Simurgh, premiered at the artists’ show last year at Raster.
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
Paulina Stasik at Museum Kampa
Museum Kampa in Prague is showing Visions of the World, featuring works from the Wigam Collection. Among them is Paulina Stasik’s Skin in the Game (2023). The exhibition runs through 30 March.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
MSN Warsaw Collection—Home at Last
The first exhibition has opened in the new building of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw—an extensive show of works from the institution’s own collection.